- Face -

The prettiest people do the ugliest things.

Perhaps that's true. You may have a million dollar smile and dashing good looks. But you're not a saint, and you've never claimed to be one. And as pretty as you are, both in your interior and exterior, it doesn't erase the fact that you will do some very ugly things if it means getting ahead in this business.

But one thing you know to be true is that the inverse isn't very true at all.

You peer out at the sold-out crowds at every WWE event, and you take a look at all of the boys in the back. And it's so very clear they're all filled with such ugliness inside. The self-loathing and self-hatred inside these individuals is overwhelming. They are the ugly ones. They are the freaks. Really, they're the ones who should be charging admission for allowing you and all the pretty ones to line up every night and see the freak show on display.

But unlike you, they'll never achieve anything worth noting, nor will they have any "pretty things" to their name.

What they do have, however, is the opportunity to watch the rise of a man who will restore honor to World Wrestling Entertainment.

Already, you've done so with the Intercontinental Championship. By bringing the title back to its roots with the classic design and successfully holding the belt for over six months, you have outshined some of the best and brightest of the former champions.

No one holds a candle to you.

So with this opportunity at Elimination Chamber, you can kill two birds with one stone.

If you win the World Heavyweight Championship, you can join the Ultimate Warrior and Triple H by becoming the only three men who have held the honor of simultaneously wearing Intercontinental gold and a world title. Very prestigious company indeed. But you'll do them one better.

Both men gave up their Intercontinental titles after winning the world title. While they were forced to vacate, you can tell in their eyes, they would've done so anyway. For Warrior and Triple H would have wanted to put all their focus on defending their precious world title. But you, you know what you're capable of. And if you win the elimination chamber, that would be the moment you know you'll be more than worthy of defending both titles.

Anytime, anywhere.

And at the end of the road, at Wrestlemania, when the world tunes in to see John Cena and the Rock square off, they'll also see another man. They'll see you restore prestige to not only both belts, but also the Rhodes family legacy that your brother destroyed under the reviled name "Goldust," with your successful defenses.

They'll watch in awe, in wonder, in amazement. For once, they'll forget about all of their ugliness inside, just to catch a glimpse of greatness passing by on their television screens.

If John Cena wins his match, it will supposedly cement his status as the star of this generation.

But in reality, it won't.

Because when Cody Rhodes, the dual champion, the heir to the Rhodes family throne, steals the show from the battle of the eras, the world will have no choice but to proclaim you as the greatest of the great, the shining star of the current crop of talent. You may have shared the name "Legacy" with an Orton and a Dibiase, but it will be a Rhodes whose legacy will transcend all of sports entertainment.

You will be the new face of professional wrestling.

All it takes is one victory inside that demonic structure. And if you must perform every ugly action you can think of to win that match, you'll do it.

As the hungriest dog in the fight, you will rip and tear and claw, and they will look just as awful as they feel.

No matter what, you're walking out of the event wearing two sets of hardware.

You'll even take another injury to the face. If becoming ugly and grotesque and disfigured on the outside - just they all are on the inside - if that's what it takes to become World Heavyweight Champion, you will gladly do it. Because those two belts will make up for it. Your ugly exterior will mean nothing if your interior is glowing with the knowledge that you have reached the top.

You will allow your face to be damaged beyond repair if it means you'll end up the face of the WWE.

And whether or not your dashing good looks still exist at the end of the bloody battle which is sure to take place, the one true beautiful thing that you know will exist inside that arena will be the image of Cody Rhodes, victorious.

It will be the prettiest sight of all.

- Cody Rhodes -


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